Textbook Sleep

Imagine that, for some misguided reason you’ll later regret, you decide to take a course in Gothic art. Perhaps you had heard it was a “gut,” an easy A—look, it’s not Biochem. And then you are assigned a book about the subject by noted art historian Andrew Martindale. It’s not him that’s the problem, it’s you. You can’t get through a single paragraph without starting over. It ain’t TikTok. It’s le...

Welcome back to Textbook Sleep , the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid. In our first episode, I read from Chapter 1 of Samuelson and Nordhaus’s legendary and tedious Economics . Now we jump ahead to Chapter 24, into something called “The Multiplier Model.” Prepare for a deep, restorative sleep... Get full access to Pieces of Jim at jimnolan1.substack.com/subscribe

Hear me say the word “econometrics” for the first time in my life and mispronounce chez lounge . Let me know what other textbooks you’d like to fall asleep to. Get full access to Pieces of Jim at jimnolan1.substack.com/subscribe